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Did Jack Ma, Chinese billionaire, fly close to the sun?
This was supposed to be Jack Ma’s finest hour: a year ago to the day, his Ant Group was meant to go public in a $37 billion blaze of glory. Read more…
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Will Trump be allowed back on Facebook? We’ll know within six months
Facebook oversight board upheld the suspension of Donald Trump but said the company was wrong to make the suspension indefinite. Read more…
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Trump planning his own social media platform according to adviser
Former US President Donald Trump plans to launch his own platform in two to three months, one of his senior advisers told Fox News. Read more…
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Revoking licenses – Trump’s parting blow in Huawei bashing campaign
Trump administration has notified Huawei suppliers, including chipmaker Intel, that it is revoking certain licenses to sell to the company. Read more…
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Chip shortage – Trump’s China tech war backfires on automakers
Automakers around the world are shutting assembly lines because of a global shortage of semiconductors exacerbated by Trump’s China tech war. Read more…
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Facebook tracking rise in violent rhetoric, YouTube suspends Trump
Facebook has seen an increase in signals indicating potential future acts of violence and YouTube suspends Donald Trump’s channel. Read more…
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Trump returns to Twitter but stays blocked on other social media platforms
Trump returned to Twitter on Thursday as other social media services including Facebook Inc continued to block his accounts. Read more…
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Trump orders more Chinese application bans in final fling before leaving
Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese software applications, including Ant Group’s Alipay. Read more…
Videos
Could hypernormalisation explain why the US has become so polarised?
Our new environment in which disinformation, misdirection and the hypernormalisation of ambiguity, uncertainty, and alternative facts thrive. Read more…
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Social media fails to reel in Trump’s false claims of election victory
As President Trump and allies flooded social media with false claims of victory and allegations of voter fraud, social media couldn’t stop it. Read more…
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Social media battles to contain online misinformation on US election results
Online misinformation on US election results spread as Donald Trump falsely claimed victory with millions of votes still to be counted. Read more…
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Facebook, Twitter take action against misleading Trump COVID-19 posts
Facebook and Twitter took action on misleading posts from US President Donald Trump for violating their rules against COVID-19 misinformation. Read more…
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Trump and the TikTok ban – a bit like the boy who cried wolf
Trump has threatened a TikTok ban “at least four times. How many more? It’s kind of like the boy who cried wolf.” It’s getting boring. Read more…
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The US ‘entity’ list is growing and the damage is spreading
The entity list dreamt up by the Trump administration is getting longer and blacker and the ripples are expanding beyond Huawei and ZTE. Read more…
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TikTok preparing to mount legal challenge to Trump’s executive order
TikTok is preparing to mount a legal challenge to Trump’s executive order prohibiting transactions with the popular short video app. Read more…
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Trump gives ByteDance ninety days to divest TikTok, threatens others
Trump has ordered ByteDance to divest the US operations of its video-sharing app TikTok within 90 days and threatens other Chinese firms. Read more…
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Trump trade tirade and ban will be like Whac-A-Mole with Gremlins
You have to wonder if anyone has properly thought through the Trump trade bans with China. The answer is clearly no. Read more…
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Microsoft’s potential TikTok buyout is a lot harder than it sounds
Microsoft’s bid to carve out parts of TikTok from ByteDance will be a technically complex endeavor that could test Trump’s patience. Read more…
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US bans on WeChat will cut ties with family and friends in China
Trump’s ban on transactions using popular Chinese messaging app WeChat will cut ties to families and friends in China, the latest casualties. Read more…
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Trump ups China tirade with sweeping bans on WeChat and TikTok
President Trump has unveiled sweeping bans on US transactions with the Chinese owners of messaging app WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok. Read more…